Ursula McKnight
Ph.D.

Ursula McKnight
Role in team
- Senior researcher
Expertise
- Nature-based Solutions, with focus on strengthening biodiversity, water quality, climate resilience, and community well-being across rural and urban landscapes under accelerating hydro-climatic change.
- Application of systems thinking approaches to water resources management.
- Aquatic ecohydrology, with focus on multiple stressors impacting freshwater ecosystems.
- Contaminant hydrogeology, including micropollutant fate and transport across the groundwater-surface water interface.
- Decision support systems development, to improve science-policy interlinkages along the climate-hydrology-impact modelling chain.
Professional records
- Current projects: Biodiversa+ (BiodivNBS) NBSPLUS; Destination Earth On-demand Extremes Digital Twin
- i10-index 34
- 40 peer-reviewed publications
Implementing digital twin technology of the earth system in Destination Earth
Nils Wedi, Irina Sandu, Peter Bauer, Mario Acosta, Rune Carbuhn Andersen, Ulf Andrae, Ludovic Auger, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Vasileios Baousis, Victoria Bennett, Andrew Bennett, Carlo Buontempo, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière, Réne Capell, Miguel Castrillo, Matthew Chantry, Matthieu Chevallier, Ricardo Correa, Paolo Davini, Leif Denby, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Peter Dueben, Claude Fischer, Claudia Frauen, Inger-Lise Frogner, Barbara Früh, Estíbaliz Gascón, Elisabeth Gérard, Oliver Gorwits, Thomas Geenen, Kat Grayson, Nadia Guenova-Rubio, Ioan Hadade, Jost von Hardenberg, Utz-Uwe Haus, James Hawkes, Marcus Hirtl, Joern Hoffmann, Kristian Horvath, Heikki Järvinen, Thomas Jung, Alexander Kann, Daniel Klocke, Nikolay Koldunov, Jenni Kontkanen, Outi Sievi-Korte, Jørn Kristiansen, Emma Kuwertz, Jarmo Mäkelä, Ilja Maljutenko, Ursula McKnight
Fluorescence spectroscopy as an indicator tool for pharmaceutical contamination in groundwater and surface water
Laila Vinther, Mette M. Broholm, Anna-Ricarda Schittich, Therese Haugsted, Ursula McKnight, Helene Draborg, Poul L. Bjerg, Urban J. Wünsch
Beyond meta-studies
Martina Viti, Jacob Ladenburg, Roland Lowe, Hjalte J. D. Sorup, Ursula McKnight, Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen
